Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau announces 500 million Canadian dollars worth of military aid for Kyiv during visit to city
Nato member Canada, which has one of the world’s largest Ukrainian diasporas, has supplied military and financial assistance to Ukraine since the invasion launched by Russia in February 2022.
“As a result of the air fight, debris from one of the drones fell on to a high-rise apartment, causing a fire,” the southern military command’s spokeswoman Natalia Humeniuk said. Russia also fired drones and ballistic and cruise missiles at the Poltava region, inflicting “some damage of infrastructure and equipment” at the Myrhorod military airfield, the regional governor said.
Meanwhile, the UN’s top aid official warned the humanitarian situation in Ukraine is “hugely worse” following the collapse ofUndersecretary-general Martin Griffiths said an “extraordinary” 700,000 people are in need of drinking water and warned that the ravages of flooding in one of the world’s most important breadbaskets will almost inevitably lead to lower grain exports, higher food prices around the world and less to eat for millions in need.“This is a viral problem,” he said.
Mr Griffiths said the United Nations, working mainly through Ukrainian aid groups, has reached 30,000 people in flooded areas under Ukrainian control. He said that so far Russia has not given access to areas it controls for the UN to help flood victims.
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